AFC Center Dinner & Show

Gresham

In a Nutshell

The dinner show encourages audience members to use their sleuthing skills to solve the crime: a murder that took place in a church

The Fine Print

Promotional value expires Mar 21, 2015. Amount paid never expires.Limit 1 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Valid only for option purchased. Must provide 21+ ID to receive alcoholic beverages. Merchant is solely responsible for all sales and delivery of alcohol. Reservation required. Limit 1 per table. Valid for dinner shows on 3/20/2015 and 3/21/2015. Merchant is solely responsible to purchasers for the care and quality of the advertised goods and services.

AFC Center Dinner & Show

Choose from Three Options

$25 for admission for one ($50 value)

$49 for admission for two ($100 value)

$95 for admission for four ($200 value)

Murder … in the Church? plays on Friday, March 20, and Saturday, March 21. Tables compete to identify the perpetrator and method behind the murder, and the winning guests receive an AFC “Golden Sleuth” Award. Attire for dinner and the show is business-casual to formal.

AFC Center

When the AFC Center originally opened, it was 1926, and the space on South Ashland Avenue was called the Highland Theater. It drew crowds with a mix of vaudeville shows and films, or, as they called them back then, "motion pictures." For decades, its lightbulb-studded marquee towered over its neighborhood—until, one day, it closed down.

This left Chicago with a problem: the building was too beautiful to leave dormant. Its details ranged from terra cotta work on its facades to marble walls and glittering chandeliers. So, eventually, entrepreneurs re-opened it, this time as an event space. Today, the building hosts shows as well as lavish private events in its turn-of-the-century proscenium theater.